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The majority of these projects are located in China and India. In China, 90% of wind energy projects have applied for CDM registration, and there are now 254 projects in the CDM pipeline, making up more than 13 GW of capacity. India has 231 projects in the pipeline, totalling more...

“India’s installed power capacity should triple in another 10 years time. We are presently at 140 GW. It needs to touch 415-440 GW by 2017. In the last 10 years, our annual addition was 4 GW. What we really need is 20 GW per year from now on.” – source...

Solar-technology developer Spire Corp. has partnered with Hind High Vacuum Company Private to expand its portfolio of products and services in India, the company said Tuesday. This cooperation will initially focus on module manufacturing equipment. India, according to Spire, is one of the world’s largest solar power markets and is...

This is quite interesting. Munich Re, the world’s largest reinsurance firm by revenues, is picking 0.2% stake in Apollo Energy for Rs 73.6 crore, valuing thefirm at a staggering $7.5 billion(Rs 36,835 crore)…Apollo Energy is a privately held holding firm of the power and health insurance businesses of Prathap Reddy-led...

The year’s list of Padma Vibhushan awardees include the chairman of India’s Atomic Energy Commission, Dr Anil Kakodkar…that’s wonderful! His bio: “Anil Kakodkar was born in 1943 in Barawani, present day Madhya Pradesh. He had his early education in Khargoan until moving to Bombay for post-matriculation studies. Kakodkar is an...

US President Barack Obama proposed a “truly global coalition”, including India and China, to ensure collective energy security and protect “our climate” and “deny dollars to terrorists and leverage to dictators”. He also said the US is ready to play its role to combat climate change but wanted the rest...

Here’s a nice article on the history of solar energy in India, which dates back to the mid-70s as a result of the 1973 oil shock. Good to know that we are not exactly new to this territory. Written by Ashok Parthasarathy, advisor to the late PM Indira Gandhi Just...

Two U.S.-based companies will manufacture and sell biomass-to-energy plants in India. California-based Alpha Renewable Energy has partnered with Nevada-based W2 Energy. W2 Energy has licensed its synthetic diesel and electricity from biomass technologies to Alpha Renewable Energy. The W2 Energy technology includes a plasma reactor, a gas-to-liquids reactor and a...

The Tata Power Company Ltd today inked a memorandum of understanding(MoU) with the Gujarat government for exploring the possibilities of setting up a five MW-geothermal unit in the state. Informing this, a Tata Power communique said a similar agreement was also made with the state government for developing another five...

As wireless network systems designers look to alternative energy sources, Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) announced a solar energy harvesting (SEH) development kit that converts ambient light into power for industrial, transportation, agricultural and commercial applications. The credit card-sized eZ430-RF2500-SEH kit combines Cymbet Corporation’s EnerChip thin-film battery technology with TI’s MSP430...